The real problem is that we're unwilling to fail retards
From 1990 onwards, I watched the media become obsessed with pass rates. If they weren't improving, it meant the education system was failing - it was just like the idea that a business is failing if its profits don't increase year on year.
So the education system was pressured to post ever higher rates of success. First 90% pass rates. Then 99% pass rates. And now it is creeping slowly toward ever higher percentages of students with top marks.
Did the students get smarter over the years? Did the teachers get better at teaching the dullards?
Of course not. Standards simply dropped. That's all there is to it. Complete morons now walk out of school with grades that say, on paper, that they know something, when they in fact have the reading level once expected of an eight year old.
From 1990 onwards, I watched the media become obsessed with pass rates. If they weren't improving, it meant the education system was failing - it was just like the idea that a business is failing if its profits don't increase year on year.
So the education system was pressured to post ever higher rates of success. First 90% pass rates. Then 99% pass rates. And now it is creeping slowly toward ever higher percentages of students with top marks.
Did the students get smarter over the years? Did the teachers get better at teaching the dullards?
Of course not. Standards simply dropped. That's all there is to it. Complete morons now walk out of school with grades that say, on paper, that they know something, when they in fact have the reading level once expected of an eight year old.